Award Flexibilities

How flexibilities can help

The Award Flexibilities are variations to the Award framework that can be applied where doing so would enable greater access to the Award. The Award Flexibilities can be applied on an individual basis with prior approval from National Office. The Award Flexibilities can also be applied to a team, or teams, in the Adventurous Journey section.

What are the flexibilities?

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Voluntary Service Section

  • Participants can volunteer from home as part of their Award
  • Participants can volunteer for family members
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Gold Residential Project

  • Participants may go home to sleep at night
  • Participants may complete some or all of the Gold Residential Project virtually as long as the criteria is met:
  • You must be registered for Gold
  • The project needs to be a minimum of five days and four nights
  • You need to be involved in 8 hours of purposeful activity each day
  • You are interacting with people you don’t already know
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Adventurous  Journey Section

  • The Bronze Practice Journey can be waived, or where a Practice Journey has been previously completed, it can be counted as the Bronze Qualifying Journey.
  • Participants can continue to the Silver level of the Award, without completing a Bronze Qualifying Journey and then be awarded their Bronze Award once the Silver Practice Journey has been completed.

How to apply

These Award Flexibilities are only for use in exceptional circumstances, where they can enable young people to participate in the Award, where it may have been difficult to do so otherwise. Award Leaders need to apply for this by emailing the Operations Manager.